Training Budget

John Mann: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what the total education and training budget of the Department is for 2005–06.

David Lammy: PQ 05/476—DCA Education & Training Budget
	You tabled a Parliamentary question, ref 218036, to my Department last session. You asked what the total education and training budget of the Department is for 2005–6.
	For DCA staff training the total allocation is £4.4m.
	The major business customers for training (e.g. the new Her Majesty's Courts Service) are in the process of agreeing their Business Plans that inform their staff education and training needs. Therefore not all of this expenditure can be precisely broken down at present. The areas that can be are:
	£650,000—Leadership and Management programmes—developing the DCA's senior managers leadership skills;
	£600,000—Professional Skills for Government—cross-governmental qualifications in Corporate/Specialist, Policy and Operational skills;
	£400,000—IT and Business skills—supporting operational staff by maximising their use of IT and their knowledge of the DCA's business to deliver effective services to the public;
	£300,000—Continuing Professional Development for Lawyers;
	£300,000—Diversity Awareness—ensuring the staff in the Department understand the diverse needs of the society they serve—their customers and their colleagues;
	£100,00—First Aid training—ensuring legal obligations are fulfilled for qualified first-aiders to provide support and possibly life-saving assistance to colleagues and the DCA's customers.
	As an Investor In People (IiP) employer the DCA provides active support to the continuing education and development of all staff. At the March 2004 IiP assessment, the DCA was praised on its approach to leadership and diversity—recognised as important cornerstones for delivering high quality services.
	I have placed a copy of this letter in the libraries of both Houses.

Construction Industry

John Pugh: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will estimate the number of workers in the building industry (a) directly employed by agencies and (b) subcontracted to building firms.

Stephen Timms: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
	Letter from Len Cook to Mr. John Pugh, dated 6 April 2005
	As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about employment in the building industry. (219953)
	Information is available from the Labour Force Survey about people working in temporary employment in the building industry who give their reason for not being in a permanent job as being an "agency worker". During the three months ending November 2004, an estimated 11,000 people were classified in this category.
	Further information relating to workers in the building industry who were directly employed by agencies or subcontracted to building firms, is not available.
	These estimates from the Labour Force Survey are, as with any statistical sample survey, subject to sampling variability.

Work-focused Interviews

Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 
	(1)  what the average length of time taken for a work-focused interview was in 2004;
	(2)  how many work-focused interviews have been conducted since the new deal programme was introduced in 1998; and in how many cases participation in the new deal ended with such an interview.

Jane Kennedy: The administration of Jobcentre Plus is a matter for the chief executive of Jobcentre Plus, David Anderson. He will write to the hon. Member.
	Letter from Lesley Strathie to Mr. Paul Holmes, dated 6 April 2005
	The Secretary of State has asked David Anderson, Chief Executive of Jobcentre Plus, to reply to your questions asking what the average length of time taken for a Work Focused Interview was in 2004, how many Work Focused Interviews have been conducted since the first New Deal programme was introduced in 1998 and in how many cases participation in the New Deal ended with such an interview. I am replying on behalf of Mr Anderson as one of the Directors of the Jobcentre Plus Board.
	Up to 60 minutes is allowed for a Work Focused Interview (WFI) although actual timings will vary. Evidence shows that in practice 40 minutes is sufficient to complete an initial WFI, with the balance of 20 minutes available if required, for supporting activity such as referral to jobs, the New Deal or other appropriate provision.
	Customers making a claim for Jobseeker's Allowance are required to attend WFIs, at the start and at set intervals throughout their claim, as a condition of their claim.
	WFIs for lone parents were introduced in October 2000 for lone parents making new or repeat claims to Income Support in three pathfinder areas and were then introduced nationally on 30 April 2001.
	WFIs for customers claiming Income Support, Incapacity Benefit, Severe Disablement Allowance, Carer's Allowance or any Bereavement Benefit were introduced as part of the rollout of Jobcentre Plus integrated offices from October 2001. WFI conditionality requires customers making a claim for these benefits to attend a WFI at the start of their claim and at set intervals throughout their claim and, as such, are not part of any mandatory or voluntary New Deal although referral to such a programme may be the outcome of a WFI. Currently WFI conditionality for these benefits operates in around 50 per cent. of Jobcentre Plus offices but we expect rollout to be complete by the summer of 2006.
	The available information is that, since 2001, there have been 3,209,000 WFIs that have been conducted at the outset of a claim.

European Court of Justice

John Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list those items of legislation introduced since 1997 in response to a ruling against the Government at the European Court of Justice.

Denis MacShane: You recently tabled a Parliamentary Question asking the Foreign Secretary to list those items of legislation introduced since 1997 in response to a ruling against the Government in the European Court of Justice, I answered as Minister for Europe and informed you that I would write with further details when they were available. I am pleased to be able to do so now.
	Legislation introduced as a result of rulings in the European Court of Justice is relevant to all Government Departments, not just the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The information below has been collated from information received from all Departments, with the exception of HM Treasury, the Department for Transport and the Wales Office, who were unable to provide the information from their records.
	
		Table of secondary legislation since 1997
		
			 Title of legislation SI number Amendments introduced as a result of specified ruling by ECJ 
		
		
			 Regulation 5, Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Amendment Regulation 1997 SI 1997/2538 Case C-237/94, John O'Flynn v Adjudication Officer 
			 Regulation 2, Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2000 SI 2000/729 Case C-382/98, R v Secretary of State for Social Security, ex p John Henry Taylor 
			 Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999 SI 1999/1102 Case C-13/94, P v S and Cornwall County Council 
			 Equal Pay Act 1970 (Amendment) Regulations 2003 SI 2003/1656 Case C-326/96, Levez v TH Jennings (Harlow Pools) Ltd, and Case C-78/98, Preston v Wolverhampton Healthcare NHS Trust 
			 Regulation 3 and 4, Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (Amendment) Regulations 2003 SI 2003/1657 Case C-185/97, Coote v Granada Hospitality Ltd 
			 Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2001 SI 2001/3256 Case C-173/99, R v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ex parte BECTU 
			 Regulation 11, Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2000 SI 2000/2326 Case C-370/90, R v Immigration Appeal Tribunal and Surrender Singh, ex parte Secretary of State for the Home Department 
			 Regulation 2(3), Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 SI 2003/549 Case C-413/99, Baumbast v Secretary of State for the Home Department 
			 Regulation 2, Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 SI 2005/47 Case C-109/01, Akrich v Secretary of State for the Home Department 
			 Value Added Tax (Insurance) Order 2004 SI 2004/3083 Case C-394/96, Card Protection Plan v The Commissioners of Customs and Excise 
			 Drinking Water (Undertakings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 SI 2000/1297 Case C-340/96, Commission v United Kingdom 
			 Nitrates Vulnerable Zones (Additional Designations) (England) (No 2) Regulations 2002 SI 2002/2614 Case C-69/99, Commission v United Kingdom 
			 Amendment to Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme. Done by way of an amendment scheme laid before Parliament on 22/07/04 N/A Case C-78/98, Preston v Wolverhampton Healthcare NHS Trust 
			 Immigration Act 1971 (c.77) (amended December 2004) Section 3(2) Case C-200/02, Chen v Secretary of State for the Home Department 
			 Finance Act 2000 (c.17) Corporation tax rules Case C-254/96, ICI v Colmer. Amendments to these rules also a result of a wide ranging modernisation.

Iraq

Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will post on his Department's website, and place in the Library, a record of the negotiations of United Nations Security Council resolution 1441 (2002) on Iraq.

Bill Rammell: The vast majority of the negotiations on United Nations Security Council resolution 1441 were carried out in closed Security Council sessions, of which there are no publicly available minutes. Details of the public meetings that the Security Council held on Iraq/Kuwait at that time are available on the UN's website at: http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/scact2002.htm
	The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (www.fco. gov.uk), the UK Mission to the United Nations in New York (www.ukun.org) and other British embassies and High Commissions have information on their websites on UN activities and issues.

Departmental Staff

Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many of the staff employed by his Department have a declared disability.

Ivor Caplin: The Cabinet Office collects and publishes annually statistical information on the civil service by Department. These include data on the number of staff who have a declared disability.
	The latest information at April 2004 is available in the Library and on the civil service website at the following address:
	http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management information/stat istical information/statistics/publications/xls/disability apr04 4nov04.xls

Medical Schools

James Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the answer of 22 March 2005, Official Report, columns 690–92W, on medical schools, how many of the undergraduates (a) were aged under 21 years at the time of admission, (b) had three Cs or less at A level and (c) had three Ds at A level.

Kim Howells: The tables provide information on the numbers of undergraduate entrants to pre-clinical medicine courses within the UK, who were (a) aged under 21 years at the time of admission (a subset of the table provided in my previous answer), (b) had three Cs or less at A level and (c) had three Ds at A level.
	
		UK domiciled undergraduate entrants, aged under 21 years to pre-clinical medicine with less than 3 C's (or equivalent 1,2at A level
		
			 Institution 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 
		
		
			 Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine — — — — — — — 
			 King's College London — 5 — — — 5 10 
			 Queen Mary and Westfield College — — 5 — — 5 5 
			 Queen's University of Belfast — — — — — — — 
			 St. George's Hospital Medical School — 5 — — — — — 
			 University College London — — — — — — — 
			 University of Aberdeen 5 10 10 15 5 5 5 
			 University of Birmingham 5 — — 5 5 10 — 
			 University of Bristol — — — — — — — 
			 University of Brighton — — — — — — — 
			 University of Cambridge — — — — — — — 
			 University of Dundee — 10 5 10 25 5 10 
			 University of Durham — — — — — — — 
			 University of East Anglia — — — — — — — 
			 University of Edinburgh 5 — — — — 5 5 
			 University of Exeter (Peninsular Medical School)(16) — — — — — — — 
			 University of Glasgow 15 10 15 10 20 10 10 
			 University of Hull(17) — — — — — — — 
			 University of Leeds — — 5 — 15 15 10 
			 University of Leicester — — — — — — — 
			 University of Liverpool — — 10 5 — — — 
			 University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — — 5 — 5 5 — 
			 University of Nottingham — 5 — — — — — 
			 University of Oxford — — — — — — — 
			 University of Plymouth (Peninsular Medical School)(16) — — — — — — — 
			 University of Sheffield 5 5 10 5 5 5 5 
			 University of Southampton — — 5 — — — — 
			 University of St. Andrews — — 15 — 10 10 10 
			 University of Sussex — — — — — — — 
			 University of Warwick — — — — — — — 
			 University of Warwick — — — — — — — 
			 University of York(17) — — — — — — — 
			 Victoria University of Manchester — — — — — 5 — 
			 Total 35 50 75 45 85 95 70 
		
	
	'—' signifies 0, 1 or 2.
	(14) Based upon students obtaining A level qualifications.
	2 For years up to and including 2001/02, figures are based upon students with A level qualifications and a points score of between 1 and 17 A level points. For 2002–03 onwards, the figures are based upon the students' tariff score from A level qualifications and includes students with 1 to 239 tariff points.
	(15) Delivery of the Undergraduate Programme began in autumn 2002.
	4 First intake of students accepted in 2003.
	Note:
	Figures are rounded to the nearest 5 and are a snapshot as at the 1 December Source:
	Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
	
		UK domiciled undergraduate entrants, aged under 21 years. to pre-clinical medicine with less than 3 C's (or equivalent1,2 at A level
		
			 Institution 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 
		
		
			 Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine 5 — — — — — — 
			 King's College London — 10 5 10 10 10 20 
			 Queen Mary and Westfield College — 5 10 — — 5 20 
			 Queen's University of Belfast — — — — — — — 
			 St. George's Hospital Medical School — 5 — — — — 15 
			 University College London — — — — — 5 5 
			 University of Aberdeen 10 15 10 15 10 10 10 
			 University of Birmingham 5 — 5 5 5 15 5 
			 University of Bristol — — — — — — — 
			 University of Brighton — — — — — — 5 
			 University of Cambridge — — — — 5 — 0 
			 University of Dundee 5 10 5 15 30 5 15 
			 University of Durham — — — — — — 10 
			 University of East Anglia — — — — — 5 25 
			 University of Edinburgh 5 — — — — 5 5 
			 University of Exeter (Peninsular Medical School)(18) — — — — — — 10 
			 University of Glasgow 20 10 15 15 20 10 15 
			 University of Hull(19) — — — — — — — 
			 University of Leeds 5 5 5 5 30 30 30 
			 University of Leicester — — — — 10 5 30 
			 University of Liverpool 10 5 15 5 — — — 
			 University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — 5 5 5 5 5 — 
			 University of Nottingham — 5 — — — 5 15 
			 University of Oxford — — — — — — — 
			 University of Plymouth (Peninsular Medical School)(18) — — — — — — 15 
			 University of Sheffield 5 5 10 5 5 5 5 
			 University of Southampton 5 — — — — 5 — 
			 University of St Andrews 5 5 20 — 10 10 10 
			 University of Sussex — — — — — — 5 
			 University of Wales, Cardiff — 5 5 10 — — 0 
			 University of Warwick — — — 10 — — 35 
			 University of York(19) — — — — — — 5 
			 Victoria University of Manchester — 5 — 5 15 10 5 
			 Total 90 85 110 105 155 160 325 
		
	
	'—' signifies 0, 1 or 2.
	1 Based upon students obtaining A level qualifications.
	(16) For years up to and including 2001–02, figures are based upon students with A level qualifications and a points score of between 1 and 17 A level points. For 2002–03 onwards, the figures are based upon the students' tariff score from A level qualifications and includes students with 1 to 239 tariff points.
	(17) Delivery of the Undergraduate Programme began in autumn 2002.
	4 First intake of students accepted in 2003
	Note:
	Figures are rounded to the nearest 5 and are a snapshot as at the 1 December
	Source:
	Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
	
		UK domiciled undergraduate entrants to pre-clinical medicine with 3 D's (or equivalent)1,2 at A level
		
			 Institution 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 
		
		
			 Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine — — — — — — — 
			 King's College London — — — — — — — 
			 Queen Mary and Westfield College — — — — — — — 
			 Queen's University of Belfast — — — — — — — 
			 St. George's Hospital Medical School — — — — — — 5 
			 University College London — — — — — — — 
			 University of Aberdeen — — — — — 5 — 
			 University of Birmingham — — — — — — — 
			 University of Bristol — — — — — — — 
			 University of Brighton — — — — — — 5 
			 University of Cambridge — — — — — — — 
			 University of Dundee — — — 5 5 — — 
			 University of Durham — — — — — — — 
			 University of East Anglia — — — — — — 5 
			 University of Edinburgh — — — — — — — 
			 University of Exeter (Peninsular Medical School)(20) — — — — — — — 
			 University of Glasgow — 5 — — 5 — — 
			 University of Hull(21) — — — — — — — 
			 University of Leeds — — — — — — — 
			 University of Leicester — — — — — — — 
			 University of Liverpool — — — — — — — 
			 University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — — — — — — — 
			 University of Nottingham — — — — — — 5 
			 University of Oxford — — — — — — — 
			 University of Plymouth (Peninsular Medical School)(20) — — — — — — — 
			 University of Sheffield — — — — — — — 
			 University of Southampton — — — — —  — 
			 University of St Andrews — — — — —  — 
			 University of Sussex — — — — — — — 
			 University of Wales, Cardiff — — — — — — — 
			 University of Warwick — — — — — — 5 
			 University of York(21) — — — — — — — 
			 Victoria University of Manchester — — — — — — — 
			 Total 5 5 5 10 10 10 25 
		
	
	'—' signifies 0, 1 or 2.
	1 Based upon students obtaining A level qualifications.
	(18) For years up to and including 2001–02, figures are based upon students with A level qualifications and a points score of 12 A level points. For 2002–03 onwards, the figures are based upon the students' tariff score from A level qualifications and includes students with 180 tariff points.
	(19) Delivery of the Undergraduate Programme began in autumn 2002
	(20) First intake of students accepted in 2003.
	Note:
	Figures are rounded to the nearest 5 and are a snapshot as at 1 December.
	Source:
	Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)

Teacher Training (York)

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much was spent on training teachers at (a) University of York and (b) University College of York St. John in (i) 1997–98 and (ii) 2003–04; and how many trainee teachers completed their studies at each institution in each year.

Kim Howells: The latest available figures, provided by the Teacher Training Agency (TTA), are in the following table.
	
		
			 HEI Funding(21) (£) Students completing (with QTS)(22) 
		
		
			 Academic year 1997/98   
			 University of York 424,177 122 (105) 
			 College of Ripon and York St. John 1,971,178 267 (244) 
			
			 Academic year 2003/04   
			 University of York 562,783 136 (118) 
			 York St. John College 3,038,672 357 (335) 
		
	
	(21) The funding figures are on mainstream funding only.
	2 Figures for 2003/04 are provisional.

Woodcraft Folk

Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will meet representatives of the Woodcraft Folk to discuss the movement's future programme and request for continued grant funding.

Margaret Hodge: I met with the Woodcraft Folk on 4 April.

Dairy Farming (Lancashire)

Lindsay Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much milk was produced in (a) Lancashire and (b) Chorley in each of the last three years; and how much was (i) sold as milk and (ii) processed for cheese in each case.

Alun Michael: Precise estimates of milk production in Lancashire and Chorley are not readily available. The milk production figures given in the table provide broad estimates based on multiplying the average UK milk yield per cow by the number of cows in the specified region. The cow numbers for 2004 are not yet available.
	Milk utilisation figures are only available at national level. Therefore the proportion of milk produced in Lancashire and Chorley sold as liquid milk and processed for cheese is not available.
	
		Estimated milk production
		
			 Region Number of dairy cows Average yield per cow (UK) litres Estimated milk production m/litres 
		
		
			 2003 — 6,634 — 
			 Lancashire CC(22) 77,145 — 512 
			 Chorley 4,429 — 29 
			 2002 — 6,494 — 
			 Lancashire CC(22) 78,498 — 521 
			 Chorley 4,628 — 31 
			 2001 — 6,346 — 
			 Lancashire CC(22) 83,402 — 553 
			 Chorley 4,748 — 31 
		
	
	(22) The figures for Lancashire CC includes Chorley, but excludes Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool.

Hazardous Waste

Anne McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 
	(1)  how much contaminated soil has been disposed of to landfill since the coming into force of regulations implementing the EU Waste Framework Directive; and what the figure was in the equivalent period prior to the coming into force of those regulations;
	(2)  how many movements by lorry of hazardous waste there have been since the coming into force of regulations implementing the EU Waste Framework Directive.

Elliot Morley: I have referred your questions to the Environment Agency. The Agency will take some time to collate the information you have requested and my noble Friend, The Baroness Young, will write to you directly when they have done so.

Raptors

David Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans she has to examine methods of control of peregrine hawks and sparrow hawks, with particular reference to their impact on other bird species.

Ben Bradshaw: We have no plans to examine methods of control of birds of prey. We are aware of increasing concerns from grouse moor owners, racing pigeon fanciers over the impact of rising raptor populations on bird numbers, including songbirds. A Raptor Working Group was set up in 1995, jointly chaired by the DETR and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee. The recommendations from the Raptor Working Group's final report, published in 2000, provides the basis for and inform efforts to find an effective and acceptable solution to the problems caused by birds of prey.
	Work is now being taken forward by the country conservation agencies, and other organisations. In addition, English Nature has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Moorland Association on addressing the issue of raptor predation in the uplands.
	A paper on progress in implementing the recommendations of the Raptor Working Group Report was presented to the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, and noted by them, in September 2003. The paper is publicly available on their website at: http://www.incc.gov.uk/management/committee/papers03–09 /incc03N06.pdf. Copies of the Raptor Working Group report are available from the Library of the House.
	Birds of prey are usually the top predators in their food chains. As with other predatory species, populations of birds of prey are normally heavily influenced by their prey populations rather than the other way around. The available evidence suggests that recovering populations of birds of prey are not responsible for recent declines in some songbirds and that other factors related to habitat change and the intensification of farming are mainly to blame.

A2

Roy Beggs: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when consultants will be appointed by his Department to make recommendations on the upgrading of the A2, Carrickfergus Belfast Road at Jordanstown and Green Island.

John Spellar: The Chief Executive of Roads Service (Dr. Malcolm McKibbin) has been asked to write to the hon. Gentleman in response to this question.
	Letter from Dr. Malcolm McKibbin to Mr. Beggs, dated 6 April 2005
	. I have been asked to reply as this issue falls within my responsibility as Chief Executive of Roads Service.
	I can advise you that consultants Scott Wilson/Ferguson McIlveen were appointed on 18 March this year.
	Since appointment the consultants have been mobilising their resources and reviewing existing information and I do not as yet have a detailed programme for their work.
	However, this scheme is included in the Roads Service Preparation Pool, which is a list of road improvement schemes that are to be developed and taken through the Statutory Procedures with the expectation of progressing to construction within the next five years, subject to the availability of the necessary funds at that time.
	I hope this information is helpful.

Invest Northern Ireland

Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much public money has been spent in each of the last three years on offering assistance to representatives of companies in Northern Ireland at the invitation of Invest Northern Ireland, broken down by constituency.

Barry Gardiner: The following table provides information relating to offers made to clients by parliamentary constituency area during the three years up to end March 2004. Included is the total amount of planned investment to which these offers contributed. Invest NI's information is provided for the years 2002–03 and 2003–04. Information for 2001–02 is based on funding provided by two of Invest NI's legacy agencies—the Industrial Development Board and the Local Enterprise Development Unit.
	
		
			  2001–02 2002–03 
			 Parliamentary constituency area Number of offers Assistance (£) Investment1 (£) Number of offers Assistance (£) Investment1 (£) 
		
		
			 Belfast East 46 5,760,102 29,021,415 58 2,103,025 8,512,108 
			 Belfast North 58 5,670,981 14,380,030 45 7,565,191 20,071,672 
			 Belfast South 78 5,780,647 33,336,606 137 15,943,868 38,581,673 
			 Belfast West 29 4,978,855 26,254,575 47 4,154,127 16,518,873 
			 East Antrim 46 1,633,322 11,499,761 66 6,249,254 21,210,100 
			 East Londonderry 44 2,006,291 6,984,996 59 4,168,042 13,950,428 
			 Fermanagh and South Tyrone 70 4,660,406 28,325,773 69 5,720,677 22,971,162 
			 Foyle 69 5,230,250 20,922,057 94 14,414,920 105,655,505 
			 Lagan Valley 64 1,385,337 7,418,796 54 1,462,738 6,682,614 
			 Mid Ulster 111 3,596,184 18,695,873 143 4,056,819 20,082,706 
			 Newry and Armagh 98 2,460,108 14,561,864 84 6,258,098 22,320,265 
			 North Antrim 68 2,261,799 12,919,845 72 2,387,964 14,215,617 
			 North Down 43 960,839 4,989,873 44 1,347,025 6,467,355 
			 South Antrim 72 7,033,902 76,712,254 86 22,877,977 142,862,810 
			 South Down 63 5,417,186 20,525,114 70 2,439,960 12,649,429 
			 Strangford 46 2,277,552 10,315,133 62 2,148,990 9,258,178 
			 Upper Bann 67 5,061,360 26,992,790 78 16,626,275 73,276,818 
			 West Tyrone 52 4,348,708 31,648,319 52 4,786,843 20,172,661 
			 Yet to be determined(24) 0 0 0 0 0 0 
			 Grand total 1,124 70,523,829 395,505,074 1,320 124,711,793 575,459,974 
		
	
	
		
			  2003–04 
			 Parliamentary constituency area Number of offers Assistance (£) Investment1 (£) 
		
		
			 Belfast East 153 15,781,519 59,561,789 
			 Belfast North 111 4,491,136 24,863,957 
			 Belfast South 268 25,744,481 106,565,647 
			 Belfast West 96 8,083,963 26,637,704 
			 East Antrim 175 3,895,611 12,601,313 
			 East Londonderry 116 5,515,632 10,952,580 
			 Fermanagh and South Tyrone 211 4,330,331 16,063,338 
			 Foyle 232 7,590,869 27,306,606 
			 Lagan Valley 189 1,701,255 5,865,880 
			 Mid Ulster 318 5,610,090 25,338,036 
			 Newry and Armagh 188 2,126,189 8,466,145 
			 North Antrim 194 5,261,235 31,305,993 
			 North Down 97 5,051,236 15,224,274 
			 South Antrim 216 4,533,953 15,122,204 
			 South Down 160 1,244,825 4,201,426 
			 Strangford 121 1,641,799 5,431,651 
			 Upper Bann 240 6,995,359 31,978,233 
			 West Tyrone 194 7,314,505 35,664,802 
			 Yet to be determined(24) 2 240,000 4,769,000 
			 Grand total 3,281 117,153,988 467,890,578 
		
	
	(23) Investment totals include assistance offered.
	(24) "Yet to be determined" relates to offers made to businesses which have not as yet determined a precise location.
	An additional £21,211,335 was offered in 2002–03 that could not be allocated by area.

Police

Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many police officers were on duty during the weekends of (a) 1 and 2 January and (b) 7 and 8 January in (i) Garvagh, (ii) Kilrea, (iii) Coleraine, (iv) Portrush and (v) Portstewart police stations.

Ian Pearson: The number of officers deployed on duty per shift during the weekends of (a) 1 and 2 January and (b) 7 and 8 of January 2005 in Coleraine DCU was as follows:
	
		
			  Coleraine DCU personnel Tactical support group 
			  Early(25) Night(26) Early(25) Night(26) 
		
		
			 1 January 2005 23 37 24 0 
			 2 January 2005 20 21 21 0 
			 7 January 2005 30 26 0 0 
			 8 January 2005 20 29 0 0 
		
	
	(25) Early shift 0700 to 1900 hours.
	(26) Night shift 1900 to 0700 hours.
	Notes:
	1. Tactical Support Group are available to provide support anywhere in the District Command Unit.
	2. Any shortfall in resource in one station will be supplemented by resources from another.

Cancelled Operations

Julie Kirkbride: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many operations were cancelled at the Worcestershire NHS Trust hospital (a) for medical reasons and (b) because of a lack of beds in each year between 1997 and 2005.

Stephen Ladyman: The information is not available in the format requested. The table shows cancelled operations for non clinical reasons at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust for the years 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04 and 2004–05 1 .
	
		
			  Org. ID Name Number of last minute cancellations for non clinical reasons 
		
		
			 2004–05 RWP Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 560 
			 2003–04 RWP Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 1,073 
			 2002–03 RWP Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 856 
			 2001–02 RWP Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 459 
		
	
	(27) For the three quarters only to December of the financial year.
	Notes:
	1. Data prior to 2001–02 were only collected at health authority level. There is no breakdown by trust.
	2. A last minute cancellation is one that occurs on the day the patient was due to arrive, after they have arrived in hospital or on the day of their operation. This includes patients who have not actually arrived in hospital and have been telephoned at home prior to their arrival.
	3. Non-clinical reasons for cancellations by the hospital include: ward beds unavailable; surgeon unavailable; emergency case needing theatre; theatre list over-ran; equipment failure; admin. error; anaesthetist unavailable; theatre staff unavailable; and critical care bed unavailable. These examples are based on information from the Modernisation Agency's theatres project and do not necessarily cover all non-clinical reason.
	Source:
	Department of Health dataset QMCO and QMNG (2001–02).

Clostridium Difficile

Paul Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects to publish the results of the most recent quarterly collection of statistics on clostridium difficile.

Melanie Johnson: holding answer 4 April 2005
	The collection of data on clostridium difficile under the mandatory surveillance scheme started on 1 January 2004. The Health Protection Agency will be publishing annual data when a full year's data has been analysed later this year.
	Cumulative data from the Health Protection Agency's voluntary reporting scheme on clostridium difficile are published regularly. Data for 2003 was published in February 2005 in the Communicable Disease Report (CDR) Weekly at: http://www.hpa.org. uk/cdr/archives/2005/cdr0705.pdf.

Elderly People (Falls)

Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his latest estimate is of the number of persons aged (a) over 65, (b) over 75 and (c) over 85 years of age resident in (i) residential care homes, (ii) nursing homes and (iii) their own homes and receiving domiciliary care; and what the (A) suicide rate, (B) number of reports to the police of missing persons, (C) number of admissions to hospital following falls and (D) number of deaths as a result of accident was in each group in the latest period for which figures are available.

Stephen Ladyman: The estimated numbers of people aged 65 and over, 75 and over and 85 and over reported to be living in residential and nursing care homes in England from the 2001 census are shown in Table 1. The table also shows the estimated number of people receiving domiciliary care provided or commissioned by councils with social service responsibilities in England at 31 March 2004.
	The Office for National Statistics does not hold information on suicide rates in residential care homes, nursing homes and homes that receive domiciliary care.
	Table 2 shows the number of finished admissions to national health service hospitals following a fall by age group in England in 2003–04. The breakdown specified is not available.
	Table 3 shows the number of registered deaths from accidental injury, by place of occurrence in England in 2003. The breakdown specified is not available.
	Information on missing persons is a matter for the Home Office.
	
		Table 1: Estimated number of people by age group in residential and nursing care homes and those receiving domiciliary care in England
		
			  As at 31 March 65 and over 75 and over 85 and over 
		
		
			 Residential care 2001(28) 162,800 147,700 95,800 
			 Nursing care 2001(28) 116,700 102,200 60,400 
			 Domiciliary care 2004(29) 318,000 263,000 n/a 
		
	
	n/a—Data not available.
	Source:
	(28) Office for National Statistics (2001 Census Table S126).
	(29) Department of Health RAP return P2s.1 2003–04.
	
		Table 2: Count of finished admissions to NHS hospitals following falls in England, 2003–04
		
			 Age Admissions 
		
		
			 65 and over 116,500 
			 75 and over 92,800 
			 85 and over 44,600 
		
	
	Notes:
	1. Ungrossed data—figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data.
	2. A finished admission episode is the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Please note that admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year.
	Source:
	Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Department of Health.
	
		Table 3: Number of registered deaths(30) from accidental injury in England, 2003
		
			 Place of occurrence(31) All ages 65 and over 75 and over 85 and over 
		
		
			 All accidents 10,500 5,800 5,000 2,900 
			 Transport accidents 3,000 600 400 100 
			  
			 Non-transport accidents 7,500 5,200 4,600 2,800 
			 of which 
			 occurring at home 2,900 1,500 1,200 600 
			 occurring in residential institution(32) 500 400 400 300 
			 with place of occurrence unspecified 3,100 2,900 2,700 1,800 
		
	
	Notes:
	(30) Figures are for death registrations, not occurrences.
	(31) Place of occurrence breakdown refers to where the accident occurred, not the place of usual residence of the casualty.
	(32) Residential institution covers: children's home, dormitory, home for the sick, hospice, military camp, nursing home, old people's home, orphanage, pensioner's home, prison, reform school.
	Data is based on ICD10 codes V01-X59, V01-V99, W00-X59, W00-X59 (4th digit 0, 1 and 9).
	Source:
	Office for National Statistics.

NHS Finances

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the level of NHS income from charges was in each year since 1990–91, broken down by income from (a) fees and charges from health authorities, (b) fees and charges from district health authorities, (c) road traffic accident income, (d) fees and charges from NHS trusts, (e) NHS Supplies Authority fees, (f) dental charges, (g) prescription charges, (h) nursing home inspection fees, (i) subsidised dried milk, (j) Medicines Control Agency: licences and inspections, (k) youth treatment service income, (l) NHS Pensions Agency fees, (m) Medical Devices Agency fees, (n) Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority: licences fees, (o) English National Board for Nursing registration fees and (p) other charges.

John Hutton: National health service income figures from fees and charges are shown in the table. The table includes fees and charges to bodies outside the NHS, charges to private and overseas patients and charges to NHS patients.
	The only charges to NHS patients are those for dental and prescription charges. The proportion of charges to NHS patients compared with the total fees and charges income has fallen from 54.4 per cent. in 1997–98 to 45.9 per cent. in 2003–04.
	
		Breakdown of NHS income from charges by charge type 1990–91 to 2003–04
		
			 £ million 
			 Charges 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 
		
		
			 (a) Health authority —fees and charges(33) , (34) — — — — — — 6.3 
			 (b) District health authorities(35) , (36) — — — — — 2.3 — 
			 (c) Road traffic accident income(37) — — — — — — — 
			 (d) NHS trusts—fees and charges(38) — 5.0 29.8 55.5 110.3 123.4 152.4 
			 (e) NHS supplies authority fees(39) — — — — — 50.1 44.1 
			 (f) Dental charges(40) — — — 367.0 383.3 381.2 383.0 
			 (g) Prescription charges(40) — — — 265.3 287.2 298.7 295.7 
			 (h) Nursing home inspection fees(41) , (46) — — — — — 4.6 5.0 
			 (i) Subsidised dried milk — — — 1.0 1.3 1.6 2.2 
			 (j) Medicines Control Agency—licences and inspections — — — 24.1 25.6 22.4 26.8 
			 (k) Youth treatment service income — — — 4.1 3.5 3.7 3.5 
			 (1) NHS Pensions Agency fees(33) — — — — — — — 
			 (m) Medical Devices Agency Fees(43) — — — — 1.2 1.5 2.5 
			 (n) Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority: licence fees — — — 0.8 0.9 1.0 1.5 
			 (o) English National Board for Nursing (ENB): registration fees(44) , (45) — — — — — — — 
			 (p) Other(47) 116.2 140.8 157.3 182.0 197.1 211.7 238.2 
			 Total 116.2 145.8 187.1 899.8 1,010.4 1,102.2 1,161.2 
		
	
	
		Breakdown of NHS income from charges by charge type 1990–91 to 2003–04
		
			 £ million 
			 Charges 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 
		
		
			 (a) Health authority —fees and charges(33) , (34) 67.7 90.1 92.0 113.8 65.8 44.8 29.4 
			 (b) District health authorities(35) , (36) — — — — — — — 
			 (c) Road traffic accident income(37) — — 30.0 75.8 98.3 105.0 117.6 
			 (d) NHS trusts—fees and charges(38) 169.6 216.7 224.2 266.0 268.2 386.1 531.7 
			 (e) NHS supplies authority fees(39) 39.1 36.1 20.3 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.8 
			 (f) Dental charges(40) 388.4 419.6 431.2 453.1 472.1 486.7 483.6 
			 (g) Prescription charges(40) 320.9 341.3 366.7 386.9 413.1 425.4 428.3 
			 (h) Nursing home inspection fees(41) , (46) 4.8 8.8 9.5 9.8 6.2 — — 
			 (i) Subsidised dried milk 2.5 2.6 2.4 2.3 3.0 2.9 — 
			 (j) Medicines Control Agency—licences and inspections 28.1 26.6 29.4 34.1 36.7 41.3 — 
			 (k) Youth treatment service income 4.5 4.7 4.6 0.1 — — — 
			 (1) NHS Pensions Agency fees(42) 2.3 6.2 2.2 1.8 1.6 0.9 0.1 
			 (m) Medical Devices Agency Fees(43) 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.4 — 
			 (n) Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority: licence fees 1.3 1.4 1.6 1.2 1.6 2.5 3.5 
			 (o) English National Board for Nursing (ENB): registration fees(44) , (45) — 1.6 1.6 1.6 — — — 
			 (p) Other(47) 275.0 296.6 315.3 320.3 347.2 372.8 391.1 
			 Total 1,304.4 1,452.5 1,531.3 1,667.5 1,714.4 1,869.0 1,986.0 
		
	
	(33)Figures from 2000–01 include charges for primary care trusts (PCTs).
	(34)Health authorities were established on 1 April 1996 and strategic health authorities on 1 October 2002.
	(35)Figures were not collected prior to 1995–96.
	(36)District health authorities ceased to exist after 1 April 1996.
	(37)Figures were not collected prior to 1999–2000.
	(38)Figures from 2001–02 includes charges from PCTs.
	(39)From 2000–01 NHS Supplies Authority split into NHS Purchasing and Supplies Agency and NHS Logistics. All fees for forward years score against the NHS Logistics.
	(40)Dental and prescription charge income prior to 2001–02 drawn from cash data in appropriation accounts. 2001–02 and subsequent years' data drawn from resource data in Summarised Accounts.
	(41)Figures not collected on a consistent basis prior to 1996–97.
	(42)No income generated prior to 1997–98.
	(43)The Agency was established in September 1994.
	(44)Figures prior to 1998–99 are not available.
	(45)In 2001–02 the Department has directed that no ETR fees should be charged and that ETR fees held in reserve should be utilised to fund the ENB's on-going students record function for the final year of its operation.
	(46)From April 2002, the National Care Standards Commission (NCSC) regulated nursing homes; health authorities no longer collect the fee income.
	(47)"Other" contains mainly charges for private patients and overseas visitors but also special health authority fees and charges.
	Notes:
	1. Information on fees and charges in (a) to (o) has been provided from the audited accounts of NHS bodies and specified NDPBs.
	2. Information in (p) has been provided for NHS trusts, PCTs and special health authorities.
	3. Information has not been provided for other non-departmental public bodies as accounts for the period are not readily available.
	4. The presentation of fees and charges in accounts is not necessarily consistent between years and therefore direct comparisons may not be relevant.
	5. The NHS and a number of listed bodies have been subject to reorganisations over the period under question, therefore figures may only be available for limited years.

Nurses (Hampshire)

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many nurses were employed in Hampshire in each of the past 10 years.

Rosie Winterton: The information requested is shown in the table.
	
		NHS hospital and community health services: qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff within Hampshire and Isle of Wight strategic health authority area for respective years
		
			 Headcount 
			  Hampshire and Isle of Wight strategic health authority total Qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff General practitioner practice nurses 
		
		
			 1995 9,734 8,977 757 
			 1996 9,663 8,929 734 
			 1997 9,653 8,914 739 
			 1998(49) 10,052 9,350 702 
			 1999(49) 10,417 9,719 698 
			 2000 10,727 9,903 824 
			 2001 11,393 10,571 822 
			 2002 11,658 10,791 867 
			 2003 13,431 12,564 867 
			 2004 12,603 11,738 865 
		
	
	(49) Headcount practice nurse figures are estimated for these years.
	Note:
	Practice nurse data as at 1 October 1994 to 1999 and 30 September 2000 to 2004
	Source:
	Department of Health Non-Medical Workforce Census
	Department of Health General and Personal Medical Services Statistics

Operations

Paul Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many operations were contracted for in each of his Department's contracts with independent sector firms to provide NHS operations; how many operations have been completed under each contract; and how many operations have been paid for but were not completed within the contracted time scale.

John Hutton: holding answer 22 March 2005
	All wave 1 contracts with independent sector (IS) providers are for fixed terms (usually five years) and set numbers of procedures. IS providers are required to treat patients referred to them in order to be paid and it is the responsibility of the national health service to ensure that appropriate numbers of patients are referred to ensure that resources are not wasted and that patients receive treatment as quickly as possible. The number of patients treated under the schemes that are currently operational is shown in the tables
	
		Five year contracts at full service
		
			  Number/commencement date 
		
		
			 Daventry(50)  
			 Total number of procedures 6,075 
			 Total completed to date 3,783 
			 Service commenced 1 October 2004 
			   
			 Mobile cataract units  
			 Total number of procedures 44,737 
			 Total completed to date 11,687 
			 Service commenced 26 January 2004 
			   
			 Kidderminster  
			 Total number of procedures 33,817 
			 Total completed to date 109 
			 Service commenced 1 February 2004 
		
	
	(50) 36 month contract spread over four financial years.
	
		Contracts at interim service
		
			  Number/commencement date 
		
		
			 Brighton and Mid-Sussex (GC8)  
			 Total number of procedures 81,178 
			 Total completed to date 77 
			 Service commenced 1 February 2005 
			   
			 Southampton (GC4)  
			 Total number of procedures 95,137 
			 Total completed to date 250 
			 Service commenced 1 September 2004 
			   
			 Trent and South Yorkshire  
			 Total number of procedures 22,000 
			 Total completed to date 2,196 
			 Service commenced 13 April 2004 
			   
			 Bradford  
			 Total number of procedures (51)27,415 
			  (52)73,750 
			 Total completed to date 600 
			 Service commenced 23 February 2004 
			   
			 General supplementary procurement 1—one year 
			 Total number of procedures 25,000 
			 Total completed to date (53)16,000 
			 Service commenced June 2004 
		
	
	(51) Procedures
	(52) Diagnostics
	(53) Approximately

Renal Services

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding he has made available for research into kidney disease in each year since 1997.

Rosie Winterton: The Department funds research to support policy and to provide the evidence needed to underpin quality improvement and service development in the national health service through its national research programmes. Expenditure on research into kidney disease supported by these programmes is shown in the table.
	
		
			  Amount (£000) 
		
		
			 1997–98 0 
			 1998–99 44 
			 1999–2000 94 
			 2000–01 102 
			 2001–02 138 
			 2002–03 224 
			 2003–04 284 
		
	
	Over 75 per cent. of the Department's total expenditure on health research is devolved to and managed by NHS organisations. The NHS has reported spending from this funding in support of renal disease as follows:
	
		
			  Amount1 (£ million) 
		
		
			 2002–03 11.1 
			 2003–04 10.6 
		
	
	(54) The figures represent the aggregate sum as reported by some 280 Individual research-active NHS organisations in the appropriate year.
	This expenditure data was not collected centrally prior to 2002.